Linktopia: Super Happy Funtime Edition #2

Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to.

Well, let’s all do the happy dance, for this comes as welcome news (NYT, free reg. required).  After two years of hearing about publishers bemoaning their plummeting sales, the forecast for this fall is improving due to a crop of reliable big name authors and a rosy holiday outlook.  It’s a nice change from the “death of midlist” stories we’ve read all too often.

Booksquare asks a good question: why would anyone go to a publisher’s blog? . . . our own Therese has participated in Ray’s first online critique workshop.  Was it worth it? . . . Everything old is new again in the world of crooked agents scamming authors . . . .legit Agent Kristin holds forth on form queries . . . Cavan blogs about how academia has influenced his writing . . . THIS is a good idea: a writing war.  Melly and Nienke came up with this motivational gem . . . .

Slushpile muses on why NYT literary critic Michiko Kakutani never seems to like anything published by Knopf . . .  found a new blog, the Syntax of Things, wherein there’s a good post about 2006’s Best Nonrequired American Reading . . . . Eric has come up with an elegant way to explain exploring creative ideas, much nicer than mine, which I call “bumbling around the draft” . . . . Random Reading is working through P.N. Elrod’s Vampire Files mysteries.  I tell ya, this website is a great resource for writers who can’t read all the books we want because we’re–ahem–working on our own, BUT we need to keep atop publishing trends . . . . Holly Lisle is auctioning off original manuscripts for three of her novels to fundraise for a friend in need.  Please help if you can . . . . over at Riskies, Elena Greene decodes contest judging . . . . MJ Rose adds a sixth “P” to marketing your books . . . . OK THIS rant is why I love reading Paperback Writer.

One week until NaNo.  Until then, write on.

Kathleen Bolton

Kathleen Bolton is co-founder of Writer Unboxed. She writes under a variety of pseudonyms, including Ani Bolton.

She has written two novels as Cassidy Calloway: Confessions of a First Daughter, and Secrets of a First Daughter–both books in a YA series about the misadventures of the U.S. President’s teen-aged daughter, published by HarperCollins, and Tamara Blake, for the novel Slumber.

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